Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

Black Preference & Indifference in Sites of Erasure

Featuring: Dr. Mandisa Haarhoff

Tuesday April 6th, 2021 at 6:30 pm EST

Zoom Virtual Event 

This talk is a critical reflection on how black people engage sites of erasure (particularly spaces that hold sacred meanings to settler-colonial histories) and do so without knowledge, concern, or reverence for these histories. How does this interaction with these sites potentially undermine, disrupt, or throw into sharp relief ongoing forms of spatial erasure?

About the speaker: Dr. Mandisa Haarhoff completed her Ph.D. at the University of Florida in 2018 on a Fulbright scholarship, and currently holds a full-time position as lecturer at the University of Cape Town. She completed her MA in Drama at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal with funding from the National Research Foundation